-jö

See also: Appendix:Variations of "jo"

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	-jö
Brazilian standard	-jä
New Tribes	-jä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *-pô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [-hə]

Suffix

-jö

1. (non-productive) forms certain nouns whose possessed forms take no further suffix, with no clear semantic contribution

Derived terms

Ye'kwana terms suffixed with -jö

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291